Opponents of the pesticide chlorpyrifos concerned about its human health harms are eyeing preemptive steps to block use of the substance including calling on California to suspend it and rallying support for legislation to impose a national ban, as they expect EPA to appeal a recent appellate ruling that requires it to prohibit the substance.In an Aug. 9 decision, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit slammed EPA for delaying a chlorpyrifos ban in favor of further study of the substance's neurodevelopmental risk to children, and ordered the agency to ban the pesticide's use on food within 60 days. The lawsuit stemmed from a challenge filed to the Trump administration's reversal of an Obama-era proposed ban on the substance.
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机译：担心毒死rif的杀虫剂的反对者正在考虑采取先行步骤以阻止该物质的使用，包括呼吁加利福尼亚暂停使用该物质，并呼吁立法支持实施全国禁令，因为他们期望EPA上诉至近期上诉裁决。 r n在8月9日的一项决定中，美国第九巡回上诉法院的一个分庭抨击EPA推迟了毒死禁令，以便进一步研究该物质对儿童的神经发育风险，并命令该机构在60天内禁止在食品中使用该农药。该诉讼源于特朗普政府撤销了奥巴马时代提议的对该物质的禁令所提出的质疑。
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